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Cannon PowerShot SX50 HS Photos of Pyralidae: Odontiinae from Suburban Appleton in 2017

 

Hugo L. Kons Jr.

hkonsjr@yahoo.com

 

2019

 

Appleton Lepidoptera Photo Index for 2017

 

 

            The below photos were taken by the author in a suburban yard on West Summer Street in Appleton, WI (Outagamie County) (Google Earth figures).  The habitat includes a variety of trees, gardens, and lawns.  The closest forested habitat is along the Fox River about 1.2 miles to the south (mesic to hydric hardwoods).  Fields, mesic to hydric hardwood forest, and prairie planting occur just over 2 miles to the west.  Forested and open wetlands occur just over 3 miles to the northwest.  Xeric uplands do not occur in the vicinity.

 

I have collected five species from this subfamily in Wisconsin but only two of them in Outagamie County.  Cliniodes ostreonalis occurs in the Canadian Life Zone (Forest County), and Microtheoris ophionalis  and Eustixia pupula occur in southern Wisconsin (Waukesha County).  Two species occur irregularly and uncommonly in suburban Appleton: Mimoschinia rufofascialis and Hellula rogatalis.  These species are probably dispersers or strays rather than residents in suburban Appleton. 

 

Numbers in [ ] are from the Hodges et al. (1983) checklist of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico.

 

Odontiinae

 

Mimoschinia rufofascialis [4826]

Three were found in suburban Appleton in 2016, but none in 2017-2018.  This species is usually found in

xeric grasslands, such dry prairie (examples: Muralt Bluff, Green County; Chiwaukee Prairie, Kenosha County).

4 September 2016 MV Trap

 

10 August 2016 MV Trap

 

22 July 2016 MV Trap

 

Hellula rogatalis [4846]

At least one specimen was found in suburban Appleton from 2016-2018; it is probably a disperser or stray.

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4 September 2017, MV Trap